Quotes 221 till 240 of 247.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
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Time is the rider that breaks youth.
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Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.
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To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.
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Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are wall-eyed.
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Virtue gives herself light through darkness for to wade.
The Faerie Queene (1590) 1, 12 -
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
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We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.
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We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.
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We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America - as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.
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We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
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Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
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What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.
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